To begin with, the question was far less “can cell phones cause widespread outbreaks of cancer.” If that were the case, we’ve been using them for decades now, and brain cancer rates would be skyrocketing.

The question has always been whether or not certain people who might have a genetic predisposition to very specific kinds of brain tumors might be placed at a higher risk factor by putting something like a cell phone near their head all the time.

And this study’s results are basically like shaking up a magic eightball and getting an “Ask again later”.

It's not that radiation from a cellphone is inconsequential, it's that it's non-ionizing. It's like trying to break a steel car door by slowly rolling marbles into it. Doesn't matter how long you do it, you're not going to cause plastic damage.

Tumors and cellphones might be linked by any number of external factors common to tumors and people who use cellphones too much, but the relationship wouldn't be causal.

Besides, it is not like Cellphones radiate twice as much as the background radiation in Cambridge. Going by the official statistics in my country: The background radiation here is roughly on the same level as by cellphones... so yeah.

A guy called dvorak is tired. Tired of humanity not wanting to change to improve itself. Quite the sad tale.

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